A permanent home for Canadian businesses
We are a family-owned investment company. We buy small and medium-sized Canadian businesses and we keep them — no fund, no investors, no exit timeline
Stone and Lantern is rooted in our family name
We invest our own capital in Canadian businesses and property — not money we have raised from outside investors. That difference decides everything about how we buy.
What We Do
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Invest in Small & Medium Canadian
BUSINESSES
We buy profitable Canadian businesses with roughly $1M–$20M in revenue. We are sector-agnostic — we judge a company on its own economics, not on the industry it happens to sit in.
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Invest in Residential and Commercial REAL ESTATE
We own property and are building a long-term real estate base on the same basis as our businesses: bought to keep, not to trade.
Why Choose
Stone & Lantern
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A family, not a firm using the word
Five members of one family, named on this site, investing our own money. The company is our surnames. We cannot walk away from that.
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Our capital is permanent
No fund, no investors, no exit clock. We can tell you truthfully that we intend to still own your business in twenty years — a buyer backed by outside investors cannot.
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We underwrite for a living
Our team works in commercial due diligence for private capital investors and in audit and advisory leadership. You get institutional-quality analysis and a family owner.
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